It's one thing to be a techno-anarchist and it's another thing to be reasonably skeptical about government and what it considers "justice" and the ramifications of that "justice". The way the government has been…
If you think of consumer purchases when you think of financial privacy, you live in a bubble of privilege. There are literally countries where people get sent to jail for giving money to pro-democracy groups or…
So, what? Hire new people to replace the ones that left and then eventually have to do a purge again in 5 years? This appears more to me like a short-sighted easy-way-out kind of move. Why not spend the time to build…
Literally no one is condoning assassination of police officers on- or off-duty. No one is condoning rioting or looting. But we are adult enough to understand that rioting and looting are the result of civil unrest when…
We're facing massive unemployment that could last an undetermined amount of time. We have models of previous economic downturns but this one is different because there is so much uncertainty with this virus. When UI…
> Their own government created the pre-requisite conditions for this So we aren't going to talk about decades of US destabilization of Central and South America for corporate profit?
I don't agree-- I don't think most people want to be power users nor do I think science and technology is supposed to produce more power users. People want hard and complex things to be done easier for them.
It's interesting. Every time the topic of privilege is brought up, usually the first thing someone who disagrees with the concept of privilege does is talk about themselves. Understanding privilege is not about talking…
It's also your responsibility to educate yourself. It's not like institutionalized racism is some "subtly intangible miasm". For an example, read up on African Americans and the G.I. Bill after WW2. Heck, the Civil…
Actually you can-- look up jury nullification. When the slaves from the southern US started escaping north and towards Canada, many northerners who aided them were put on trial because technically they broke a law…
Sorry, that's not an excuse here. The issue was not a breach. It was an uncaught bug that revealed the moderator's identity when they performed an action against the alledged terrorism group. This is a process and…
It's one thing to be a techno-anarchist and it's another thing to be reasonably skeptical about government and what it considers "justice" and the ramifications of that "justice". The way the government has been…
If you think of consumer purchases when you think of financial privacy, you live in a bubble of privilege. There are literally countries where people get sent to jail for giving money to pro-democracy groups or…
So, what? Hire new people to replace the ones that left and then eventually have to do a purge again in 5 years? This appears more to me like a short-sighted easy-way-out kind of move. Why not spend the time to build…
Literally no one is condoning assassination of police officers on- or off-duty. No one is condoning rioting or looting. But we are adult enough to understand that rioting and looting are the result of civil unrest when…
We're facing massive unemployment that could last an undetermined amount of time. We have models of previous economic downturns but this one is different because there is so much uncertainty with this virus. When UI…
> Their own government created the pre-requisite conditions for this So we aren't going to talk about decades of US destabilization of Central and South America for corporate profit?
I don't agree-- I don't think most people want to be power users nor do I think science and technology is supposed to produce more power users. People want hard and complex things to be done easier for them.
It's interesting. Every time the topic of privilege is brought up, usually the first thing someone who disagrees with the concept of privilege does is talk about themselves. Understanding privilege is not about talking…
It's also your responsibility to educate yourself. It's not like institutionalized racism is some "subtly intangible miasm". For an example, read up on African Americans and the G.I. Bill after WW2. Heck, the Civil…
Actually you can-- look up jury nullification. When the slaves from the southern US started escaping north and towards Canada, many northerners who aided them were put on trial because technically they broke a law…
Sorry, that's not an excuse here. The issue was not a breach. It was an uncaught bug that revealed the moderator's identity when they performed an action against the alledged terrorism group. This is a process and…